An eastern Ohio high-school football player who served 10 months of a one-year sentence for
raping a 16-year-old girl in 2012 has returned to school and its football team, according to the
Steubenville High School website.

He was one of two athletes convicted in the sexual-assault case, which drew national attention
to Steubenville, about 150 miles east of Columbus, after images of the assault appeared online.

Ma’lik Richmond, 18 and now a senior, was sentenced to one year at the Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile
Correctional Facility in March 2013 and released in January. He will have to register as a sex
offender for 20 years.

Richmond’s co-defendant, Trent Mays, was convicted of rape and child pornography for using his
phone to take a picture of the rape victim naked. He was sentenced to two years and remains in
detention.

“If (Richmond’s) detention sentence had been longer, it would have kept him from participating,
or if the school would have a policy against allowing a convicted sex offender from participating,
that would also keep him from being a part of the team this fall,” Tim Stried, spokesman for the
Ohio High School Athletic Association, said yesterday.

The group’s bylaws allow school authorities to decide whether a student can participate if he is
otherwise eligible.